Mark your calendars.
Right after being teased for months, a launch date has last but not least been exposed for the film “Do not Glance Up,” which was filmed about the previous 12 months at several areas across Massachusetts, together with Tumble River.
People curious if we are going to get a glimpse of the Spindle City or our beloved Big Mamie on the huge display screen will have to wait just a little bit more time.
It seems the Netflix movie will be our Xmas present. It is established to launch in select theaters on Dec. 10, prior to dropping on the streaming service on Dec. 24.
“Don’t Glance Up,” directed by Adam McKay, has been explained as a satirical, political catastrophe film and capabilities a massive star-studded solid.
It follows two reduced-amount astronomers, performed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who go on a media tour to attempt to alert the world about a killer comet hurtling toward Earth.
The motion picture will also feature Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Rob Morgan, Mark Rylance, Scott Mescudi, Matthew Perry, Chris Evans, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Gina Gershon, Michael Chiklis and Paul Guilfoyle.
‘Good publicity for the ship’:DiCaprio, Streep and Lawrence shoot film aboard Major Mamie
Individuals in the SouthCoast have been anticipating this buzzy flick considering the fact that Hollywood descended on Fall River in December. Residents rushed the boardwalk at Heritage Point out Park when news that DiCaprio, Lawrence and Streep ended up filming aboard the Battleship.
It was an fascinating time for spectators as fireworks went off about the Taunton River all through the night shoot, and the parking ton at Battleship Cove was transformed into a sea of trailers.
Mayor Paul Coogan told The Herald News back in December that the creation crew had first thought of filming at Bicentennial Park prior to relocating locale a mile south.
Mum’s the word from the mayor, who was invited on set, on the character of the scene that was shot on the ship. And it stays to be viewed just how substantially of the Drop River footage will make it into the film, but here is hoping the Big Mamie dazzles in her large screen debut.
‘OMG I was there’:Brockton inhabitants get entrance-row seat for filming of ‘Don’t Search Up’
Apart from Drop River, scenes for “Never Glimpse Up” were being also filmed in Framingham Worcester Union Point, the previous South Weymouth Naval Air Station Fort Issue in Boston, near South Station and at the Wheaton School campus in Norton.
In February, Lawrence and Chalamet had been noticed taking pictures scenes in downtown Brockton, the place Lawrence experienced an eye damage on established that briefly halted filming. She was again on set significantly less than 48 several hours later.
In an job interview with The New York Instances in April, director Adam McKay — whose directorial credits include comedies this sort of as “Anchorman,” “Step Brothers,” dramedies like “The Big Quick” and the 2018 drama “Vice” — said the dark comedy was initially meant to be a local climate change allegory, but the COVID-19 pandemic transformed that.
“What that did was convey out what the movie is seriously about, which is how we communicate with every single other. We just can’t even converse to each individual other anymore. We can’t even concur. So it’s about weather transform, but at its root it is about what has the online, what have cellphones, what has the modern-day environment accomplished to the way we converse.”
Appear listed here:New trailer drops for ‘Don’t Appear Up’ movie shot in Slide River, Brockton
Seeking for some thing to maintain you above till December? Test out a trailer for the film, which was produced earlier this 12 months, teasing an “extinction-amount event” as asteroids streak across the sky. Another transient short teaser was also leaked on-line this August.
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